A Hundred Years From Now

It will not make much difference friend
A hundred years from now
If you live in a stately mansion
Or a floating river scow

If the clothes you wear are tailor made
Or just pieced together somehow
If you eat big steaks or beans and cake
A hundred years from now

Won't matter what your bank account
Or the make of car you drive
For the grave will claim all your riches and fame
And the things for which you strive

There's a deadline that we all must meet
No one will show up late
It won't matter all the places you've been
Each one will keep that date

We will only have in eternity what we gave away on earth
When we go to the grave we can only save the things of eternal worth
What matters friend the earthly gain for which some men will bow
For your destiny will be sealed you see a hundred years from now

~ Warren Parker (Quoted by Len. Ravenhill)